Team Shock's new robots

[Kenny]

hi will, if you swap the elbow fittings for sweaped fittings you would increase the flow from the buffer tank just a small tip and for not much money

[teamshock]

After a couple of fights with Whirlwind it became clear that there were one or two small issues with the power of the flipper which has resulted in breaking 3 flipper arms which went like this

Arm 1: Bent after 3 fights at Barnsley

Arm 2: Bent during testing before Whitwick

Arm 3: Snapped in half during its first flip at Whitwick

So we spent today making yet another flipper arm and this one looks like it might finally work

Here is a quick video of us testing it:


Also in other news, Aftershock has had a few upgrades including a brand new flipper arm and we also have 2 new antweights Inertia & Tesla

Pics of both can be found here
Tesla (electric axe) http://media.photobucket.com/image/tesl ... 77.jpg?o=9

Inertia (Vertical spinner) http://s881.photobucket.com/albums/ac13 ... G_0298.jpg

[psycho_fling]

your garden is a bit muddy

antweights look great and the CAD images in the back look slick any armour on the spinner???

[teamshock]

Well about time I did another update.

Whirlwind has finally started to work as intended, the new flipper arm survived 3 fights at Nottingham without any sign of bending. The flipper seemed to have plenty of power which was clear when self righting (4 somersaults in the air is pretty impressive but can be a bit annoying when the battery comes out)

Also I have finally got round to sorting out a new team website which has been desperately needed (I haven't updated the last one since 2008!) so here it is

http://www.teamshock.kk5.org

there are a couple of bits which are just updating but the whole thing should be done tonight.